Local officials ran a computer analysis that determined a state job-creation grant of almost $5 million would generate more than $45 million in state revenue over 12 years. But they didn’t study whether committing to three decades of tax breaks made economic sense. “Intuitively, the numbers showed it was a good deal,” Lenoir City Manager Lane Bailey said Wednesday.

Oh cool, because there’s nothing us taxpayers trust more than the intuition of our elected officials.

T.J. who says my opinion has changed? I’m still happy to see Google coming to NC. That being said, since that post, we’ve learned the incentives could be $260m instead of $100m, and local officials didn’t complete their due diligence – that certainly raises questions.